The ACL Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes outstanding contributions to computational linguistics. Recipients give a talk at the annual meeting of the ACL, and the text of the talk is generally published in Computational Linguistics. This page lists the published talks since the first award in 2004.
The 2020 and 2022 entries are interviews with the recipients. The 2014 talk was recorded as a video and not published in the journal.
To be eligible for presentation (oral or poster, etc.) at AAAI 2027, CL papers must satisfy both of the following conditions:
1. receive an accepted decision by October 26, 2026 and;
2. have the final version submitted (and approved to be sent to MIT Press) by November 9, 2026.
To be eligible for presentation (oral or poster, etc.) at EACL 2027
CL papers must satisfy both of the following conditions:
1. be accepted by October 8, 2026 and;
2. have final version submitted (and approved) to CL by October 22, 2026
